by Advocate Staff | Feb 12, 2009 | Music
Ethiopian musicians Debo Trio play for the opening reception of IMAGinING TOBIA and Ethiopia Whispers, exhibits including video installation by Salem Mekuria and paintings by Sofia Kifle (whose work is pictured), on Thursday, Feb 12, at 5:30 p.m. The exhibit runs...
by Gary Carra | Feb 12, 2009 | Music
With an enviable track record of attracting some of the biggest names in folk, jazz and rock and an impeccable pedigree, Northampton's storied Iron Horse Musical Hall has established itself as an industry thoroughbred.And although the Horse narrowly escaped a...
by James Heflin | Feb 12, 2009 | Leisure
UMass-Amherst professor Raymond Bradley knows a thing or two about climate change—he's advised American, Swiss, Swedish and British governmental agencies, and worked with the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the organization which shared...
by Mary Nelen | Feb 12, 2009 | Food + Booze
It would seem as though what to do with the landscaping over on Pennsylvania Avenue might be the last thing on the mind of our new president. But it's the first thing on the minds of others—lots of others. There is the "Eat the View" contingency, a...
by Tom Sturm | Feb 12, 2009 | Arts
The Hampden Gallery at UMass-Amherst has paired a couple of artists of extraordinarily stark vision, both of whose work is as crisp in its contrast as it is in its commentary. The first, Timothy Gough, spends unimaginable amounts of time creating aggregate sculptures...